美国当代作家托马斯.品钦是一个充满着神秘色彩的作家。他很少抛头露面,似乎游离于社会之外,所写的作品却全都面向社会现实、关心人类状况。收录在短片小说集《慢学者》中的早年习作,虽然受到的关注较少,但其主题在他之后的鸿篇巨制中却都有体现。通过对《慢学者》中的五个短篇小说《小雨》、《低地》、《熵》、《玫瑰之下》和《秘密融合》进行逐个的分析,挖掘品钦作品中所体现的“死亡”、“选民/弃民”、“熵”、“追寻”、“爱与融合”等主题,并探讨品钦在这五个短篇小说中逐步向我们表达的对人类如何在后现代荒原社会中找到出路的思索。 Thomas Pynchon, a contemporary American author, is a mysterious writer. He rarely cast his eyes on his face and seems to be free from society. His works are all aimed at social reality and are concerned about the human condition. His early work, which was included in the short story collection “Slow Scholar”, has received less attention but its theme has been reflected in his later monumental work. By analyzing the five short stories “Light Rain”, “Lowland”, “Entropy”, “Under the Rose” and “Secret Fusion” in “Slow Scholars” one by one, we dig out the “Death” “” Voters Abandon “, ” Entropy “, ” Chasing “, ” Love and Convergence "and other themes, and explores Pynchon’s gradually expressed to us in these five short stories How to Find a Way out for Mankind in the Postmodern Wasteland Society.